Research Briefs

RESEARCH BRIEF - By issuing a sustainability report, firms with strong corporate citizenship performance can increase their market performance in short and long terms.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Firms with women directors have been shown to offer acquisition bids less frequently.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Investors assign a premium to firms with strong corporate citizenship performance during a crisis of trust.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Corporate citizenship practitioners working to increase employee engagement and wellness should stress the importance of consistency to company managers and their human resources colleagues.

RESEARCH BRIEF - When it comes to environmental investments, firms should avoid doing ‘too little of a good thing.’ While financial performance suffers slightly when companies make only modest environmental investments, it increases sharply when they exhibit strong environmental performance.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Companies should be aware of the prevalence of the unconscious gender bias that exists when evaluating a professional’s work.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Consumers have more favorable perceptions of a company’s reputation when they know more about its corporate citizenship efforts, and prefer to receive corporate citizenship communications that are informative, transparent, relevant to their lives, and factual in tone.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Companies that cross-list in the United States have stronger corporate citizenship performance than those that do not.

RESEARCH BRIEF - The demographic composition of a board CSR committee influences its firm’s corporate citizenship performance.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Diverse teams outperform homogeneous groups, but only when they are structured for success.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Corporate giving efforts increase employee commitment and retention intentions. Firms that strategically select their partner organizations, and firms that provide opportunities for employees to interact with the beneficiaries of corporate giving, see the biggest uptick in their employees' attitudes.

RESEARCH BRIEF - When employees perceive a company to have strong corporate citizenship performance, they have greater commitment and pride—and ultimately—stronger job performance.